melanoma
Portuguese, noun/me.laˈnõ.mɐ/
melanoma is spelled M-E-L-A-N-O-M-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 47,254th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Melanoma is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “melanoma (type of skin tumour)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tipo de câncer que atinge o tecido epitelial, mais especificamente a pele”.
What does melanoma mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemelanoma (type of skin tumour)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. tipo de câncer que atinge o tecido epitelial, mais especificamente a pele
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of melanoma
- melanomas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce melanoma?
- Brazil /me.laˈnõ.mɐ/
- Portugal /mɨ.lɐˈno.mɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to melanoma
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is melanoma in Portuguese?
melanoma appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).